Lead Foot Habits: You're always jumping on the gas pedal, after a red light, after a stop sign, you give it the gas pretty heavy to the floor.
Lead Foot Benefits: You may or may not get to where you're going faster. If there is another red light up ahead this just means that you'll get there faster only to stop and be delayed anyway.
Also, if you have a small engine it may not really accelerate that much faster anyway. If you notice, the engine sort of has to catch up to how far down you are on the pedal.
Lead Foot Costs:
Based on my experience you could easily be wasting over 10% of your precious gas. One day fairly recently I made a conscience decision to alter my driving habits and am now getting more than 10% higher gas mileage.
If you increase your mileage per gallon by 10% it is like lowering your gas cost by about 10%. Nowadays that makes your gas cost over 40 cents per gallon cheaper! It's also like for every 10 gallons you buy you get a gallon FREE. I'll take that deal any day!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .